Google revealed Wednesday that it spent $2.9 million in 2017 as part of its bug bounty program to reward researchers security for vulnerabilities. Since launching the program in November 2010, Google has said it has paid nearly $ 12 million to various security researchers.
In 2017, Google in its 2017 bug bounty rewarded a total of 274 researchers, and its largest amount of money, worth $112.500, went to a security researcher for reporting a chains exploit that could be used to hack Pixel mobile devices.
The vulnerabilities of Google and its Android κατάφεραν να πάρουν από 1,1 εκατομμύρια δολάρια το καθένα για το 2017, ενώ τα υπόλοιπα χρήματα πήγαν σε ευπάθειες του Chrome, according to the company's blog post.
Google has also highlighted two other major vulnerabilities that 2017 has discovered:
Researcher "gzobqq" managed to get $ 100.000 for a chain of five errors that allowed remote code execution in Chrome OS, and
Alex Birsan discovered that anyone could have acquired access on internal Google Issue Tracker data and managed to earn $15.600.
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